Saurabh BadoniDr. Saurabh Badoni is presently working as a scientist at the International Rice Research Institute South Asia Regional Centre in Varanasi, India. He has also been working as a Department of Biotechnology (DBT)-Ramalingaswami Fellow, being a recipien of Ramalingaswami Re-Entry Fellowship, which is one of the highly prestigious fellowships of the DBT, Government of India. Earlier he has served as a postdoctoral fellow at the headquarters of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Laguna, Philippines. He has also previously served as an international consultant to IRRI, Philippines, and a postdoctoral research associate at the National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), New Delhi, after completing his PhD from G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India. He is a member of the Crop Science Society of the Philippines (lifetime), Philippines, Australasian Grain Science Association, Australia, and Indian Society of Genetics and Plant Breeding, India. He was honored with the Young Scientist Award by the State Science Academy (Uttarakhand), India, and IRRI-PDF. He has published more than 25 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters of international repute and is serving as an editor and a reviewer for a number of eminent journals. Read More Read Less